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title: goal posts are wobbly, gonna swing on the crossbar — Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rul… · tree and pragmatics
description: goal posts are wobbly, gonna swing on the crossbar Test 11 · ★ of lesson 304 «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports

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goal posts are wobbly, gonna swing on the crossbar

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** goal posts · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 304 «Outdoor games, playgrounds and the rules of sports» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t11:1
# text = goal posts are wobbly, gonna swing on the crossbar
1	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	gonna	gonna	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crossbar	crossbar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | goal posts |  |  |  |  | wobbly *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fine, they're made to hold kids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t11:o1:1
# text = Fine, they're made to hold kids
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | they *not said here* | kids |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only if your mates hold it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t11:o2:1
# text = Only if your mates hold it
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | your mates | it |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fine if you swing gently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t11:o3:1
# text = Fine if you swing gently
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swing	swing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | present | you |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Don't, unanchored goals can fall and crush you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:304-outdoor-games-and-sports-rules:t11:o4:1
# text = Don't, unanchored goals can fall and crush you
1	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	unanchored	unanchored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	goals	goal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | can | unanchored goals |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **crush** | infinitive | unanchored goals *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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